> > Linux kernel names the scsi drives sda, sdb .... so in case you switch> > slots, or move across to a different controller then its possible you> > can have very bad effects. Worst case is removing a drive and the drive> > device files dont have a persistant assiciation with the location, or> > do we have a magic superblock what the configured name was.

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> devfs takes care of this. With the devfs patches you can address your> drive by it's physical location, from controller all the way down to> partition.

That is exactly the wrong answer. What is needed is to address the _data_on the disk, not it's ephemeral phyiscal location. Worse yet, having tobecome acquainted with esotherica like "controller all way down topartition". OTOH, if you take a look at current versions of mount(8), you_can_ mount by volume identifier and don't need all this nonsense at all.-- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.clCasilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616

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